The Brand Barry

• Lower-Income Mobile Users Look to iPhone for Internet, Entertainment - MarketingVOX
  Who says only the rich buy iPhones? Not comScore. Highest growth rate is in the 25K - 75K income range
  (tags: iphone income apple comscore)

Fondue’s favorite treat

Originally uploaded by jasoncalacanis

Since Calacanis stopped blogging, I’m finding his content (and I mean photos, links, whatever) much engaging. There’s something about the feature article-ness of a nice long blog post still relevant, but this snack content is much better delivered through places like Flickr and FriendFeed. Here we see Jason’s dog Fondue munching on some of the hundreds of electronic devices lying around his house. It’s probably one of those places a non profit that gives phones to poor people could clean up at in one visit.

• Google Soups Up Analytics Features - MarketingVOX
  New Analytics goodness from the googleplex
  (tags: google analytics)

• Zinch social network for colleges
  Zinch is a social network dedicated to matchmaking of prospective students and universities. Their tagline of "I am more than a test score" speaks to the site's mission to help college bound students interact with institutions beyond their test score.
  (tags: colleges admissions universities widmeyerhighered)

• YouTube - GoogleBusiness's Channel
  File this in the "really cool and valuable resource but never remember to use it" category. I wish I could remember all these sites or better yet they were on iTunes as a podcast.
  (tags: google adwords)
• Ei Engaging ideas
  Don't know why I love little cards and new uses for them but this Engaging ideas card pack is something I'll order for the office soon.
  (tags: cards ideas)

• Power Readers in Politics
  Who says politicos are laggards when it comes to new and social media? Here's a page featuring candidates, journalists and other political personalities who are apparently using Google Reader and we get to see what they're sharing. I wonder if we'll see candidates sharing stories from their oppponents' blogs.
  (tags: politicial reader RSS)

• The Mashup Landscape: 7 Kinds of Component
  Love these articles that wrap up a lot of web 2.0 goodness. This one from HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog) talking about different kinds of mashups and where to find the info about them. Neat
  (tags: mashup RSS API)
• MagCloud
  HP Labs experiment in self published magazines. You’ve heard of the vanity publishing industry segment, so why wouldn’t magazines be next? Well, postage costs for one. Thanks to Frank Gruber who noticed it. Would you want The Brand Barry Magazine?
  (tags: magazine publishing web2.0 writing ideas)

I shouldn’t be surprised when I get IM spammed since I block just about everyone on every service I use, but one snuck by me today as I installed and fired up Skype for the first time on my MBA (MacBook Air). It seems Charity here from Ghana wants to be my friend. I go out of my way to avoid these random connections but I wonder if the depression drug manufacturers couldn’t get together with these IM spammers and pair up their customers with them. Total reinforcement. “Cheer up. Isn’t it time for a pill, Joe?” I think that could work.

• Meedu Podcast in a Box
  Always felt colleges and universities were the places where innovation is most likely to happen so here’s a good example of a need driving development of a neat little product for automating the production of podcasts from professor lectures.
  (tags: podcast universities colleges)